Surajit Nundy , founder Raxa Health, IndiaHealthcare in India has long been provided in unconnected silos by individual doctors and in small hospitals. Because of the lack of information patients have little choice but to agree with providers’ management decisions. This should enable payer coverage to expand from infrequent secondary and tertiary interventions to primary care, where most healthcare expenditure occurs. Digitising health in the rest of the world has been challenging and will be in India, too. Footnotes Competing interests: SN leads Raxa Health, a social venture focused on digital health.

Source: The Telegraph October 22, 2021 15:14 UTC